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. 1995 Jun;68(6):2524–2530. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(95)80435-2

Mössbauer spectroscopy on nonequilibrium states of myoglobin: a study of r-t relaxation.

V E Prusakov 1, J Steyer 1, F G Parak 1
PMCID: PMC1282162  PMID: 7647255

Abstract

A frozen solution of 57Fe-enriched metmyoglobin was irradiated by x rays at 77 K. Mössbauer spectra showed a reduction of Fe(III) high spin by thermalized electrons and a production of a metastable Fe(II) low spin myoglobin complex with H2O at its sixth coordination site. The relaxation of the intermediate was investigated by Mössbauer spectroscopy as a function of temperature and time. The relaxation process starts above 140 K and is fully completed at approximately 200 K. At temperatures between 140 and 200 K, the relaxation lasts for hours and is nonexponential in time. Up to 180 K, the process can be described satisfactorily by a gamma distribution of activation enthalpies with an Arrhenius relation for the rate coefficient. The temperature and time dependence of the Mössbauer parameters indicates structural changes in the active center of the protein as early as 109 K that continue for several hours at higher temperatures. Above 180 K, structural rearrangements involving the whole protein molecule lead to a shift and narrowing of the barrier height distribution.

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